In the 1990s, the U. S. Army used the recruiting slogan, "Be all that you can be." This catchphrase BEST reflects the _____ perspective in psychology.

D) humanistic

Which psychologist is matched with the correct perspective?

A) John Watson — psychodynamic

B) George Miller — cognitive

C) Carl Rogers — behavioral

D) Lev Vygotsky — sociocultural

A graduate student is reading dozens of studies examining the effect of external rewards on intrinsic motivation. For each study, she considers the quality of its methods and the implications of its results for a broad theory of motivation. The graduate student is engaged in _____ thinking.

D) critical

Macy is considering topics she finds personally interesting and is beginning to read some of the psychological research on some of these topics. With respect to the scientific method, Macy is working on the _____ step of the method, namely _____.

A) first; developing a question

Cory creates a pie chart for a sales meeting. The chart MOST likely displays _____ statistics.

D) raw

Cindy selects a sample of college students. She finds a relationship between the students' scores on an impulsivity scale and their scores on

a measure of problem drinking. Cindy wishes to predict the likelihood that a new sample will show the same relationship. She therefore computes _____ statistics.

D) inferential

The last step in the scientific method is:

C) publication

_____ is a research technique in which behavior is described in its everyday environment.

B) Naturalistic observation

Rare phenomena are best studied using a descriptive research technique called:

C) the case study

A questionnaire tapping respondents' political attitudes would MOST likely be used in:

C) survey research

Low response rates may call a sample's representativeness into question. This is MOST often a problem in _____ research.

A) experimental

The correlational method is aimed at:

B) examining relationships among variables.

Dr. James deliberately varied facial symmetry in a series of photographs and later measured participants' liking for the faces. Dr. James conducted a(n) _____ study.

D) observational

When a researcher arbitrarily places participants in either the experimental or the control group, she is conducting:

D) random assignment.

In an industrial psychology experiment, one group of participants is exposed to heat stress; another is not. All participants' performance on an attentional vigilance task is then examined. Which set contains equivalent items?

B) {treatment group, experimental group, heat stress group}

A psychologist is conducting an experiment on the effects of brainstorming instruction on problem-solving creativity. Participants are randomly assigned to an instruction or a no-instruction group. The creativity of all participants' problem solutions is later assessed.

D) dependent

Human strengths and virtues are the focus of a new approach called _____ psychology.

B) positive

Which contemporary perspective is correctly matched with its description?